[ale] OT: Bad Linspire....tsk tsk

[Richard Kolkovich]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 09/05/06 10:40, KingBahamut blabbered::
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060904#freespire
> 
> from the article
> 
> "Several readers have emailed us to let us know that Linspire has launched
> what can only be classified as an attempt to tamper with our page hit
> rankings by trying to artificially inflate the page hit ranking figures for
> its new community distribution - Freespire Upon investigation, it turned
> out
> that both linspire.com and nvu.com had been deceivingly redirecting
> visitors
> to the Freespire page on DistroWatch and that the default home page of
> Firefox in the latest build of Freespire had also been set to the same
> page.
> As a result, Linspire has become the largest referer of DistroWatch.com
> this
> month and the company has been responsible for a considerable number of
> extra hits on the Freespire page at DistroWatch.
> 
> Although the redirections continued for several days, the Freespire page
> hit
> counter was unaffected. As always, excessive and deliberately misleading
> links to DistroWatch by distributions are considered illegal and a script
> was promptly set up to prevent the counter from incrementing in cases where
> the visitors were referred by linspire.com or nvu.com."
> 
> Sigh.....bad Linspire...bad......
> 

I think it is a testament to the distro's (lack of) success.  When you
have to resort to such tactics to make others think your product is
popular, you are in sad shape.  :-\


- --

Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFE/y4IKTYpNZ5U71kRAoPAAKCTDZUKxs8X0FfABykT7F8q/LtNzwCaA8qS
jAUCd8djv+mcGamlVieyqSo=
=HKl4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----